Aladdin Monologues
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ALADDIN MONOLOGUES Please choose ONE of the following monologues to use for your audition. Try to memorize it if you can, and put LOTS of expression into it. Feel free to read whatever part you like, but realize the Directors may think you are better suited for one of the other roles. Give it your best! ALADDIN: (Speaking to Jasmine) Why would I steal a loaf of bread? Gee, I dunno. Acute hunger pains? Lightness of the head? Rude growling noises from the stomach? All of the above? I can see you’re not from around here. You’re too nice and too scared. This is Agrabah, hungry and angry. When you’re trapped here, you get used to it. So, you don’t want to tell me where you’re from. Fine. But I bet wherever it is, it’s – well it’s gotta be – beautiful! ALADDIN: (Talking to Himself in the cave) I don’t like this being a prisoner! But I do like Jasmine. I mean “The Princess”! UGH! I must’ve sounded so stupid! Then again, what does it matter? I’m never gonna see her again. Me, the “street rat”! Besides, she deserves a prince. Or at least someone better than me. Oh why did I ever meet her? (Pause) Boy, I’m glad I met her! Look at all this junk! I bet no one’s been in here for years. Huh, a lamp. (picks it up) Something’s written on it. Let’s see here…. GENIE: (Coming up from the lamp) Oy! Ten thousand years in a tin can’ll give you SUCH a crick in the neck! (Cracks his neck) Okay, that’s better! (to Aladdin) C’mon kid, what’s it gonna be? Cash, camels, Casbahs? You must want something… Hey! What’d you say your name was? “Aladdin” huh? He speaks! Okay, this is going to be a snap! May I call you “Ali”? You know, Al, you’re a lot smaller than my last master. Either that, or I’m getting bigger. Do this harem pants make me look fat? JASMINE: (Speaking to the Sultan) Father, Razoul arrested a boy in the marketplace today. On Jafar’s orders. His name is Aladdin. He’s being held somewhere, and you have to release him. Never mind if he was a street person! We should be getting to know the “common people”! How else are you going to know what’s going on? Did you know that your “common people” are hungry? Father, please listen to me! (OVER) JASMINE: (Calling out from her balcony) O Aladdin, Aladdin! Wherefore art thou Aladdin? ((He Pops up) ALADDIN? Is that you? Oh no, you are Prince Ali Ababwa. You have no right to come here! Leave me alone or I will call the Guard! Wait a minute, do I know you? You remind me of someone I met in the marketplace. Oh, never mind! You are just like all the others! Go….go fly a Carpet!! JAFAR: (Speaking to Iago) You think I am PLEASED? “Pleased” to be playing nursemaid to a spoiled princess? “Pleased” to be keeping tabs on every petty thief in Agrabah? While day in and day out that blithering idiot remains Sultan! I am working on an old document. With a NICE new paragraph I just added. Listen to this: “Should an unmarried Royal Princess, who is sole heir to the throne, fail to choose a husband within the time allotted for such selection, the Sultan’s highest ranking official –that would be me – will immediately become betrothed to the princess and will himself inherit all the rights. Privileges and powers of the Sultan! (Evil Laugh) IAGO: The Street Rat is now Prince Ali! Uh, You could say “Thanks Iago” “That was brilliant, Iago” Aw, shucks, Boss, just doin’ my job. Hey, I bet he gets his power from the guy with the earring. Ten to one, he’s behind that carpet trick. Bet he’s better than a wizard or a sorcerer. Hint: Three Wishes! Bingo, Boss, he’s a GENIE! And there is a lamp. Get it, and YOU will have all the power! SULTAN (To Jasmine) Now, Jasmine, which of these worthy princes will you keep and which will you vote off of the island? Jasmine, the law is the law. It’s been the law for a thousand years. No matter if you think it is unfair, you don’t have the choice of whom you marry. You’re a princess! Jasmine, now don’t be so dramatic about it. Now come inside the palace! NARRATORS: Welcome to Agrabah, City of Enchantment! Where every beggar has a story and every camel has a tail! The big day has finally arrived and you’re all just in time to join the festivities. Yes, friends, this is the day when we finally find out who Princess Jasmine’s future husband will be! It won’t be long now, folks. There’s the Grand Vizier, Jafar, the Sultan’s right hand man. Renowned for saying, “Ask not what your country can do for you . Ask what you can do for me.” And there’s Razoul, Captain of the Royal Guard, despite being dropped on his head as a baby. .